Friday, August 26, 2011

Ding Ding It's Friday

My Crane Ding Ding Bell

This bell is loud and has an excellent tone and lasting post-ding resonant reverberations. It's bold and brassy and sounds like Friday. It was 113F in Phoenix on Thursday setting another new record high for the date during this heatwave, and still 100F at 10pm. But no earthquakes to report, no hurricanes here either, although we did have another big dust storm in the middle of the night giving uber-PM10 pollution levels throughout the day advisories of all sorts flying hither and yon, excessive heat, unsafe particulate levels, ozone bonus days. I don't know that it's a long-term good idea to be out riding around on an PM-10 + ozone warning day, I think they are telling me to stay inside and watch television else surf the closeout sites and buy junk I didn't know I needed instead of riding outside. At one time I tried riding while wearing an N99 mask but that just wasn't something I could get used to.

Lot's of people here saying they don't like the heat, saying they're tired of it, saying they wish it was fall here already, saying I'm crazy for riding my bike to work every day, but I love summer's last blasts. Thrive on it. Bring it. Cycling in this heat is sweet as my brass Crane bell. DING DING it's Friday. This yellow bike got to ride ride this weekend get us some more heat. Less web, more riding. That's the plan.

2 comments:

I also think you're crazy -- I'm no fan of heat -- but I understand the feeling. A lot of people think I'm crazy for riding during the winter, or in the rain, or any other conditions perceived as slightly uncomfortable. That said, any of those things, over a prolonged period of time, can get to me.

Please feel free to comment here, almost anything goes, except for obvious spam or blatantly illegal or objectionable material. Spammers may be subject to public ridicule, scorn, or outright shaming, and the companies represented in spam shall earn disrepute and ire for each occurrence.

Thriving on two wheels

I commute by bicycle in Phoenix, Arizona, a place suited for riding bicycles of all types, with weather, mountains, roads, canals, and paths to keep me forever spinning. My favorite bike tools are an open mind, anger control, curiosity, compassion, common ground, and the search for knowledge. With coffee.

Dedicated to the Lost and Bold

Arizona 3 foot law ARS §28-735. Overtaking bicycles; civil penalties A. When overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken bicycle. B. If a person violates this section and the violation results in a collision causing: 1. Serious physical injury as defined in section 13-105 to another person, the violater is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars. 2. Death to another person, the violater is subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars. C. Subsection B of this section does not apply to a bicyclist who is injured in a vehicular traffic lane when a designated bicycle lane or path is present and passable